15 Bible Verses about Effect Of The Law

(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant ??a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

Do not imagine I am going to accuse you to the Father; Moses is your accuser, Moses who is your hope!

The Jews retorted, "But we have a Law, and by [our] Law he is bound to die, because he has made himself out to be God's Son."

and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

the command that meant life proved death for me.

The command gave an impulse to sin, sin beguiled me and used the command to kill me.

Then did what was meant for my good prove fatal to me? Never! It was sin; sin resulted in death for me by making use of this good thing. This was how sin was to be revealed in its true nature; it was to use the command to become sinful in the extreme.

Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.

For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire ??for sin, apart from law, is lifeless.

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